ORADEA & CLUJ-NAPOCA, Rumania

The youngsters from the family I stayed over with took me to Oradea witch is
just across the border from Hungary. That city has history you will notice only from walking through.

Old buildings all over the place and you can see that they had to fight quite a few times. Some of the buildings are covert in canvas, some are Justin the process of restoration but there are a few restored once as well.

I stayed in Oradea only for a few hours because I had a couch surfing place in Cluj-Napoca and Oradea is a small place. I haven’t seen all the sights but how says that you have to see all the sights?!

I was lucky to get a ride straight from outside of Oradea to Cluj.

Finally: I arrived in Romania!! While driving on the federal road and having a chat to the women who give me a ride I enjoyed the wide untouched and totally different looking landscape and from time to time we went through a little village. On the road to Cluj you have to cross a part from the Rumanian mountain range. It feels like that you dive from the flat landscape into the deep green hills which seem to never end.

Driving into Cluj-Napoca, Klausenburg called in German language has given me some interesting thoughts. First you go through the little houses from the gypsy and from one second to the other big Concrete towers on both sides from the street as far as you can see overwhelm you. The blocks are still remaining form the communism. The longer I have looked at them the more I liked them. They had little round verandas on the outside which made them look interesting.

Adelas and Dans place which used to be a little hotel and got turned into an open house was my accommodation for a few days. They had their house open for couch surfers and different groups on different evenings. While I was there I met 7 surfers and a group of local Tango dancers. We had long evening talks and cooked at the evenings.

I went to the local Sunday marked which was above my imagination. But I found some little gift. I would not have thought that at the time I entered the Marked. It seems you have to know your way around the place and the people to find the right things but I was there for entertainment only anyway.

Klausenburg is a student city which is very empty during the summer. I only had a wonder round the centre and the hill of Centatuia Park to enjoy the view which is overlooking the city. I spend some time in the Botanical garden where I picked a carrot from which I thought was fair because I had to pay entrance.

I stayed a day longer as I wanted to but it was such a nice place with so many nice people. If I will visit Cluj again I would go there during students time.